Isaiah 18

Isaiah 18New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

An Oracle concerning Ethiopia

18 Ah, land of whirring wingsbeyond the rivers of Ethiopia,[a]2 sending ambassadors by the Nilein vessels of papyrus on the waters!Go, you swift messengers,to a nation tall and smooth,to a people feared near and far,a nation mighty and conquering,whose land the rivers divide.

3 All you inhabitants of the world,you who live on the earth,when a signal is raised on the mountains, look!When a trumpet is blown, listen!4 For thus the Lord said to me:I will quietly look from my dwellinglike clear heat in sunshine,like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is overand the flower becomes a ripening grape,he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks,and the spreading branches he will hew away.6 They shall all be leftto the birds of prey of the mountainsand to the animals of the earth.And the birds of prey will summer on them,and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.

7 At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from[b] a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.

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